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Andrea Arcangeli ea164d73a7 [PATCH] shrinker->nr = LONG_MAX means deadlock for icache 
With Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>

The slab scanning code tries to balance the scanning rate of slabs versus the
scanning rate of LRU pages.  To do this, it retains state concerning how many
slabs have been scanned - if a particular slab shrinker didn't scan enough
objects, we remember that for next time, and scan more objects on the next
pass.

The problem with this is that with (say) a huge number of GFP_NOIO
direct-reclaim attempts, the number of objects which are to be scanned when we
finally get a GFP_KERNEL request can be huge.  Because some shrinker handlers
just bail out if !__GFP_FS.

So the patch clamps the number of objects-to-be-scanned to 2* the total number
of objects in the slab cache.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-28 14:42:26 -08:00
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bootmem.c [PATCH] core remove PageReserved 2005-10-29 21:40:39 -07:00
fadvise.c [PATCH] xip: madvice/fadvice: execute in place 2005-06-24 00:06:42 -07:00
filemap_xip.c [PATCH] mm: rmap with inner ptlock 2005-10-29 21:40:41 -07:00
filemap.c [PATCH] x86_64: Remove obsolete ARCH_HAS_ATOMIC_UNSIGNED and page_flags_t 2005-11-14 19:55:14 -08:00
filemap.h [PATCH] xip: reduce code duplication 2005-06-24 00:06:41 -07:00
fremap.c mm: re-architect the VM_UNPAGED logic 2005-11-28 14:34:23 -08:00
highmem.c [PATCH] gfp_t: the rest 2005-10-28 08:16:51 -07:00
hugetlb.c [PATCH] hugetlb: fix race in set_max_huge_pages for multiple updaters of nr_huge_pages 2005-11-22 09:13:43 -08:00
internal.h Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
Kconfig [PATCH] mm: update split ptlock Kconfig 2005-11-23 16:08:38 -08:00
madvise.c mm: re-architect the VM_UNPAGED logic 2005-11-28 14:34:23 -08:00
Makefile [PATCH] memory hotplug: sysfs and add/remove functions 2005-10-29 21:40:44 -07:00
memory_hotplug.c [PATCH] memory hotplug: call setup_per_zone_pages_min after hotplug 2005-10-29 21:40:44 -07:00
memory.c [PATCH] Workaround for gcc 2.96 (undefined references) 2005-11-28 14:42:22 -08:00
mempolicy.c mm: re-architect the VM_UNPAGED logic 2005-11-28 14:34:23 -08:00
mempool.c [PATCH] gfp_t: mm/* (easy parts) 2005-10-28 08:16:47 -07:00
mincore.c [PATCH] freepgt: sys_mincore ignore FIRST_USER_PGD_NR 2005-04-19 13:29:20 -07:00
mlock.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
mmap.c [PATCH] unpaged: private write VM_RESERVED 2005-11-22 09:13:42 -08:00
mprotect.c [PATCH] unpaged: private write VM_RESERVED 2005-11-22 09:13:42 -08:00
mremap.c [PATCH] mm: split page table lock 2005-10-29 21:40:42 -07:00
msync.c mm: re-architect the VM_UNPAGED logic 2005-11-28 14:34:23 -08:00
nommu.c mm: re-architect the VM_UNPAGED logic 2005-11-28 14:34:23 -08:00
oom_kill.c [PATCH] gfp flags annotations - part 1 2005-10-08 15:00:57 -07:00
page_alloc.c [PATCH] mm: __alloc_pages cleanup fix 2005-11-28 14:42:24 -08:00
page_io.c [PATCH] mm: split page table lock 2005-10-29 21:40:42 -07:00
page-writeback.c [PATCH] re-export clear_page_dirty_for_io() 2005-11-18 07:49:45 -08:00
pdflush.c [PATCH] cpusets: confine pdflush to its cpuset 2005-10-30 17:37:21 -08:00
prio_tree.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
readahead.c [PATCH] readahead commentary 2005-11-07 07:53:37 -08:00
rmap.c [PATCH] temporarily disable swap token on memory pressure 2005-11-28 14:42:25 -08:00
shmem.c [PATCH] mm: split page table lock 2005-10-29 21:40:42 -07:00
slab.c [PATCH] slab: remove alloc_pages() calls 2005-11-13 18:14:12 -08:00
sparse.c [PATCH] memory hotplug: move section_mem_map alloc to sparse.c 2005-10-29 21:40:44 -07:00
swap_state.c [PATCH] mm/swap_state.c: unexport swapper_space 2005-11-07 07:54:07 -08:00
swap.c [PATCH] unpaged: unifdefed PageCompound 2005-11-22 09:13:42 -08:00
swapfile.c [PATCH] mm/swapfile.c: unexport total_swap_pages 2005-11-07 07:54:07 -08:00
thrash.c [PATCH] temporarily disable swap token on memory pressure 2005-11-28 14:42:25 -08:00
tiny-shmem.c [PATCH] Error checks omitted in init_tmpfs() in mm/tiny-shmem.c 2005-10-30 17:37:27 -08:00
truncate.c [PATCH] 32bit integer overflow in invalidate_inode_pages2() 2005-11-23 16:08:39 -08:00
vmalloc.c [PATCH] kernel-doc: fix warnings in vmalloc.c 2005-11-07 07:53:56 -08:00
vmscan.c [PATCH] shrinker->nr = LONG_MAX means deadlock for icache 2005-11-28 14:42:26 -08:00